Ranking Issue for New Site
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Hi all, I have got a specific SEO challenge.
6 months ago, we started to build an eCommerce site (located in the UK). In order to speed up the site launch, we copied the entire site over from an existing site based in Ireland. Now, the new UK site has been running for 5 months.
Google has indexed many pages, which is good, but we can't rank high (position: between 20-30 for most pages). We thought it was because of content duplication in spite of different regions. So we tried to optimize the pages for the UK site to make them more UK-related and avoid content duplication.
I've also used schema to tell google it's a UK-based site and set up Google my business and got more local citations.
Besides, If you could give me any suggestions, it'd be perfect.
Thank you so much for your time and advice. -
@Insightful_Media It may have happened because of Google took a bit longer to index all your pages and register all the changes you made to optimize your content.
I found this topic almost more than a year since it was posted, but replying it now because I came across this post finding solution for similar kind of problem I am facing for my technology blog site. I have updated my meta, SEO title, and to much extent, content. But it is taking timeto update in Google databases. It still shows old meta in SERP -
@juanltob is correct. Google prefers original and valuable content. Duplicate content doesn't serve a huge purpose when matching a query to a landing page as diverse results are a better user experience. It's difficult with an ecommerce site as you may have many pages and if you don't have the resources to write all the product descriptions. So I would focus on getting the most valuable products descriptions updated and go from there. Good luck!
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@insightful_media said in Ranking Issue for New Site:
we copied the entire site over from an existing site based in Ireland
Duplicate content and hard to rank above in google. I don't know how big the site is, but a possibility is to rewrite duplicate content so it is new. This is in my opinion the best option but not the fastest, you can use fiverr or other services to find writters.
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